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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #books




I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent. ↗


— Sherman Alexie


#book #book-lovers #intelligent #kissing-and-books #romantic

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. ↗


— Henry Miller


#debate-fodder #intelligence #reading #wisdom #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. ↗


— Mortimer J. Adler


#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. ↗


— Mortimer J. Adler


#children #curiosity #knowledge #philosophers #philosophy

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#intelligence

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies… Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it. ↗


— Enrique Vila-Matas


#intelligence #reading #talent #words #intelligence

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ↗


— Malcolm X


#reading #life

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. ↗


— Stephen King


#life

Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. ↗


— John Green


#library #reading #life

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ↗


— John Milton


#censorship #ideas #intellect #life






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